Hungary's Orban Vows Closer Salvini Ties But Keeps Options Open
- Premier’s role in EU mainstream in limbo after EPP suspension
- Meeting comes less than a month before EU parliament elections
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Two of Europe’s most high-profile populist leaders met to explore cooperation, raising the chance of a widening nationalist alliance inside the European parliament after elections this month.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he’d cooperate “visibly, earnestly and openly’ with Italian Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini, who’s trying to build a group of like-minded nationalists within the European Union. Speaking alongside Orban Thursday in Budapest, Salvini said a bloc of far-right parties stood a chance of winning a majority.